"Several innovations are being devised to make the channel more dynamic than its predecessors," says The Times about the planned launch of the merged BBC World/BBC News channel on April 3.
Making changes to 24-news channels is a bit like trying to change the wheels on a moving saloon car during an endurance race. Dynamism is an odd ingredient to chase; well-researched, well-written and well-filmed news items would be my focus, plus a drive to find guests with genuine news contributions to make or top quality specialist insight, rather than a cast-list of usual suspects who keep the meter moving.
Paul Royall's memorable contribution to BBC tv output will always be The Big Red and Black Garage of News, where presenters move around a cavernous showroom like hapless salesmen of shiny SUVs, sometimes in front of the curved screen with Japanese backing, then next to the Samsung Obelisk of Graphics soaring into the superstructure, or at the desk with 'windows' to an imaginary newsroom. Lowly correspondents and weather forecasters perform in a church hall area, where they ran out of money for glossy laminates, and got stuck with pretend concrete pillars. Utterly meaningless distractions.
Let's hope, as interim director of this 'new' channel, he concentrates on quality rather than slash and shimmer.
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